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Laurie McIntosh
My name is Laurie McIntosh, I'm a full time IT Manager for a ferry company in Auckland. I've used Paradox since the first version for Windows, but only really seriously since v5. I look out my window at the Auckland Harbour Bridge. They're constantly painting it - when they finish at one end they just start again at the other. I can relate to this: I've just finished writing version 1.5 of the booking system for one of our services and I'm about to start writing version 2 for another. This will take me about six months. Then I'll go on to the next service.

After hours I'm a musician - I look after guitars and vocals in two different bands, and play an acceptable jazz piano. I also work as an enginerr (sic) in a recording studio whenever I can. In the summer I play cricket for a team called the Natural Born Losers, and try and go sailing when I'm not doing that. Alas, the two seem to be mutually exclusive. In the winter I cuss and moan about not being able to play cricket.

My favourite colour is Fish and my pet hate is bad spelers (sic).

Um... embarrassing confession...

After many years of most of the people here thinking I'm female, I'm actually a guy. There IS a story to it however. When I first started using Compuserve (early 1990s), it was mainly for support for different things. I'd join a forum and ask a question and all these people would answer as if I was a chick (because "Laurie" is commonly a girl's name in the US). Well, I'd then have to start explaining, no, I'm not a woman I'm a guy and there'd be embarrassed apologies and everything and an air of embarrassment about the whole saga.

Well, it got to be too much of a hassle. I stopped explaining because I knew it didn't MATTER that folk thought I was female, as I wasn't on here for social reasons. And I noticed, once I stopped explaining to folk that I was a guy, that the quality and the depth of the answers I received was FAR BETTER as a woman than it was as a man. See, this is where laziness is not just its own reward, it has genuine, palpable payback.

Now, I never suggested I was a chick, I just never got around to clearing up the misapprehension. I spoke to Dan Alder just before Christmas for the first time (when I lost my Paradox cd), and, bless him, he never missed a beat when the woman he spoke to had somewhat manly vocal qualities. Footnote to the cd story: I found my old cd under my bed. I don't want to even think about what this means viz-a-vis my relationship with Paradox.


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